Comic News

Boom! goes Digital

June 15th, 2010 – Los Angeles – On the heels of yesterday’s announcement of the BOOM! Studios Comics app on the iPad and iPhone, BOOM! Studios announces today a host of strategic partnerships with leading digital comics distributors comiXology, iVerse, Graphic.ly, and Panelfly to offer their frontlist and backlist for digital download spanning the mobile, portable and desktop space, including the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, laptop and desktop computers.

Launching today with some of BOOM!’s most recent top-selling comics, such as 28 DAYS LATER, DIE HARD, the Eisner Award-nominated graphic translation of Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, as well as BOOM!’s top-selling original, Eisner Award-nominated IRREDEEMABLE, companion series INCORRUPTIBLE, and supernatural thriller THE UNKNOWN, BOOM! Studios enters the era of Digital Comics with a bang! 

Blue Beetle Live Action TV Show?

Coming from Geoff Johns’ Twitter feed is news that DC Entertainment is filming a live action test for a live action Blue Beetle TV show. The test is of the character Jamie Reye’s (The current Blue Beetle) activating his Scarab suit. Johns also stated on the feed that if he could he would be bringing the footage to Comic Con in July. The Brave and Bold cartoon show will also be featuring the character for most of the new season in order to increase the public’s awareness.

Boom! goes to iPad

June 14, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA – Today BOOM! Studios is pleased to announce the arrival of the BOOM! Studios Comics app for the iPad and iPhone in the iTunes App Store. Built on comiXology’s popular digital comic platform, the BOOM! Studios Comics app launches with a number of top pop culture-inspired titles including comics based on 28 DAYS LATER, DIE HARD and a word-for-word comic translation of Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, as well as BOOM! Studios’s top-selling original series IRREDEEMABLE, INCORRUPTIBLE and THE UNKNOWN.

Partnering with comiXology to create an incomparable reading experience for BOOM! Studios fans and comic fans everywhere, BOOM! Studios launches its mobile app with nearly 50 comic book titles optimized specifically for mobile devices. In addition to stunning high-resolution comics in an amazingly easy-to-operate user interface, the BOOM! Studios Comics app utilizes comiXology’s patent-pending Guided View™ technology to create a completely immersive digital comic experience for new and old fans alike. The app also comes fully equipped with comiXology’s Retail Locator, giving fans unprecedented access to BOOM! Studios titles both on and offline.

Image Comics – Hack/Slash #1 Sells Out

News coming from Image about Hack/Slash: My First Maniac. Look for Dustin’s review tomorrow!

Berkeley, CA – 14 June, 2010 – Tim Seeley’s first release since bringing cult classic Hack/Slash to Image Comics — HACK/SLASH: MY FIRST MANIAC #1 (of 4) — is officially sold out at the distribution level. Image Comics is taking it to press for a second printing.

“I’m so pleased that Image gave me a chance to reach a whole new audience,” exclaims Seeley. “Thank you readers, new and old!”

P.A.C. Weekly News

P.A.C. News is back! That’s Player Affinity Comic News for those of you that forgot. Not a lot happened in the world of comics this week, but we do have some fun stuff to cover and awesome photos like, our thumbnail image, to show you. Let’s dig into comic news for the week of June 13th, 2009!

Up first, we have an awesome crossover drawn by deviantArt artist, Gotta Be Carl. He’s taken the world of the X-men and Futurama and made one glorious image that’s worthy of t-Shirts and posters! Seriously I’ll write a comic for this guy to draw if no one swoops in and hires him! Have you ever read a Futurama comic? They are so-so in quality, but with Gotta be Carl’s art I think the book would be astonishing! Bonus points if you can name Leela’s mom (that ones been bugging me)! Share the images with your friends, and you can play, “who’s that” for hours.

The Perhapanauts: First Blood and Second Chances

Image Comics – After the First Course

Image Comics’ CHEW marks the first quarter of its run with a special 15th issue

Berkeley, CA – 9 June 2010 – CHEW is a certified hit, and to celebrate CHEW’s 15th issue, which marks the end of the first quarter of the book’s run and hits store shelves September 29, writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory are thanking fans with a slew of special features.

“We wanted to do something really special for CHEW #15,” says Layman. “Honestly, we never thought we’d make it this far, and we wanted to do something above-and-beyond for the fans and retailers who have supported us.”

Walk Like The Dead

Image Comics reprints THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 just in time for the AMC series

Berkeley, CA – 9 June 2010 – Starting this October, you’ll be able to watch The Walking Dead on AMC. You can prepare to join The Walking Dead by picking up the new printing of THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 TP on September 1.

THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM, VOL. 1 collects the first 48 issues of the ongoing series by writer Robert Kirkman with art by Charlie Adlard and Tony Moore. It weighs in at more than 1000 pages of zombies and the people who try to survive them.

The Darkness: Origins Volume 2 Trade Paperback

LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 8, 2010 – Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that the long sold-out early issues of The Darkness will be re-released as The Darkness: Origins Volume 2.  Scheduled to be in stores June 30, 2010, The Darkness: Origins Volume 2 continues the rebranding presented as part of the publisher’s “Origins” trade paperback line reprinting of classic Top Cow Universe stories that includes the recently released Witchblade: Origins Volume 1 and 2, and The Darkness: Origins Volume 1 trade paperbacks.

For fans new to Top Cow’s publications, The Darkness: Origins Volume 2 continues where The Darkness: Origins Volume 1 leaves off as we go back to the beginning and see 21-year-old mob hitman. Jackie Estacado struggle with the power and the burden of The Darkness.

Comic News Roundup for the Week

Welcome to Player Affinity Comics News of the week or PAC News for short. There was a blitz of news this week, so let’s begin with a story reported by KTLA 5 about the LAPD cracking down on the superhero pan-handlers that have become a tourist mainstay in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater off of Hollywood Blvd. The character actors have been an attraction on Hollywood Blvd for nearly a decade and gain a lot of attention after the documentary Confessions of a Superhero. The documentary followed four of the character actors revealing their life on and off Hollywood Blvd.